Little Corner of Ania

Oy, it’s a layout of me and sister dearest…

With papers from ColorConspiracy and a lovely cluster of some of my favorite Maya Road embellishments…

And my fave way to add quick and cute dimension to chipboards (using liquid pearls)

Love you, sis! :)

Sort of feeling like that.

Today I figured I’d share a box, a card, and a layout with ya…

Let’s do the layout first, shall we…

This one’s for Maya Road, as you might have guessed from all the Maya Road-ish embellishments used here…. the backgroundpaper’s from ColorConspiracy….they have so many patterns that’s perfect as backgroundpaper – one-ish color yet interesting..sort of…:)

One – love the doily clear stamps – yields such gorg, crisp (im?)prints every single time. Two – kraft butterfly? Yesthankyouplease. Three – see the “bed” of ribbon/fabric that the cluster is attached to? That’s the organza tea garden trim which’s discontinued methinks, so if you see it – grab it.

Added a lil paperribbonthingie from American Crafts (Dear Lizzie).

I’m not one for huge flowers, but that yellow flower (Satin Scallop Edge)? Lovesit.

Right. Over to the card..

Love the elegance transparencies automatically gives (borrows?) to cards when used like this, as an extra folder…The transparency & paper here’s from ColorConspiracy-

Twine and dangling embellishments from Maya Road..

Cluster put together from random bits & pieces from Pink Paislee, Hambly, Maya Road, Heidi Swapp (red chipboard heart!! loved those!) and Prima.

Yeap. Really like the feel the transparency lends to the card. I tried to dot the piece of tulle by the way, didn’t turn entirely the way I wanted, but ahwell…

Gold glitter ftw!

And finally….a chocolate box. Papers and die cuts from ColorConspiracy, kraft butterfly from Maya Road.

It’s a simple box. Just a thinking-of-you-get-well-chocolate-box for a coworker of mine.

It was quickly put together, and well appreciated.

Right.

Almost caught up.

Work’s been keeping me busy as usual, and right now I’m engaged in a project building up & readying the paper I work for, for a new system coming this Fall. Then I’m off to another weeklong course - my 2nd of this years four courses. Then, when I’m back, I should be back to my regular, writing work-self (been away from my regular work for half a week now and it’s I’m so, so itching to do some real writing…eeks….). Not that anybody cares, but ah well… :)

So.

Hi. I’ve been scrapping. In between.

Here’s a layout for ColorCOnspiracy.. w/photos of my sister and nephew…

I like the new papers from ColorConspiracy…they come w/patterns on the bottom tag or whatever it’s called. Yields more possibilities for the papers methinks :)

ColorConspiracy has cute die cuts as well, as seen above and below..

And the clouds were made by using the star punch (Martha Stewart everywhere on the page one) first then cutting out the cloud (w/the Fiskars cloud punch).

Well. I thought that looked somewhat nifty..

Right.
TGIF.

Have schoolstuff and scrapbookingstuff to catch up w!

This months inspiration on ColorConspiracy is typography. I just did a simple take on that inspiration theme, I just mixed various sized letters in the title…but I know – it’s possible to do a much more clever play on typography, like the way Madga did in the CC inspiration post here.

Simple or not – I still like to add longer titles by using these small letters from Adornit (I have like, 8-10 more sheets of these, they were so cheap and so versatile…I dread the day I’m outta these letters)…plus normally I prefer letters the size of the purple thickers here…I like putting together long-ish titles and stuff…

Right. Sunday. Workday. Catchupday.

I got a new baby and am only 1/3rd into the manual (yes..I’m one of these suckers who actually read the manuals..at least when it comes to this) but I need to wrap up a few chores first.

Let’s go.

Hey wait, where’s the three other photos, you may think. There’s only one visible here…

Mmm…see that bow? Open it..(oh, and by the way, see that good ol’ Love Elsie epoxy-sticker too? :) )

Like this…

And voila…more photos :)

I originally intended to have five photos on this layout..but I usually just print out photos w/o really checking their dimensions…just guessing this’ll do…well, this time I wasn’t really able to fit all of them on the layout in a way pleasing to my eyes..so instead of forcing it and/or have to re-print some of the photos, I decided to just make a little leaflet/booklet so I could get all of them on the same layout.

So..

this layout was created for the ColorConspiracy’s March challenge, which’s to use 4 or more photos on one layout (or if you chose to do projects – 4 or more of the same embellishment).

Right. papers and die cuts from ColorConspiracy ofc…..awesome black glittery stars and glassy flowers from Prima… letters from Websters and Pink Paislee…twine, transparency tickets and wooden butterfly from Maya Road…oh, even an arrow die-cut from Scenic Route..plus already mentioned epoxy stickers from Love, Elsie (KI Memories)…

right…

join along :)

Lo. And behold.

I made a sketch.

I won’t do this too often. It’s too much of a headache! But by all means – feel free to use it.

I made it for the monthly sketch challenge over at ColorConspiracy. Loved to see the other ladies take on it! Here’s mine, by the way.

As you can see I flipped the sketch and made two strips of photos…

Photos from our trip to Moustiers Sainte-Marie in Southern France. Provence I suppose…?
Love using French papers and embellishments for the French photos =)

The golden star was sort of a village symbol….there was a golden star hung up high above the village..

Speaking about ColorConspiracy…there’s two mini collections coming out soon, complete with stickers and die cuts – check out Mini Giant and Graphic Loop!

Haha, loved when the girls used the gate-thingie to get some peace from poor little Kasper…

Love this polka dot background from October Afternoon, wanted a lil pop of red against it..the red measurement tape is perfect cause it’s about differences in sizes too, sorta :) Theyre using his little size against him :)

Maya Road has a lot of kraft pins out atm, among them this heart shaped one…I wanted to fold the hearts out & stamped it with vintage wallpaper stamp sheet in w/clear embossing :) Oh, and notice the wooden ruler/angle thingie in the upper edge of the photo…love it :)

More pop of red with the new tulle flower from Maya Road :) Also appreciate that Maya Road comes w/thinner wooden rulers now, I liked the original ones but often felt they were too thick for my purposes..

Made this layout for the CHA show by the way :)

Soo…I mentioned in last post that I’m now part of the ColorConspiracy design team…and I’ve now played with their papers for real…love the subtle graphic patterns… most of them are my fave kind of patterned paper – monocromatic or duotones..I find such papers quite easy to use :)

And, since there’s CHA going on atm (you probably do not want to miss the sneak peeks & chances on giveaways on the Maya Road blog by the way) I usually drop by TwoPeas to join their CHA challenges…which I did this weekend as well, putting my ColorConspiracy papers to good use :)

First out is this layout of my lovely niece…

Love the cleaniness of this layout, if I may say so myself *smile*.

The challenge was to use five photos on one project… well, five photos – check :p

I find these photo-die cuts cute..comes in different colors…figured I’d use yellow here. Figured it needed a little extra dimension so I added this red brad from Pink Paislee :)

Love the clean, red letters too, by the way – I can’t recall the brand..Scenic Route mayhaps?

And this flair button from PaperPlay’s perfect here! Just the right hue of blue + added splash of red :)

And then I joined this challenge that’s about using seven kind of different patterned papers….figured it’d be a nice way to familiarize myself with ColorConspiracy’s papers ;)

Look, I even hand stitched that tag! Which by the way was dolled up by a Craft Origine-stamp, by the way. And the bright, yellow tulle flower is one of the new releases from Maya Road this CHA, by the way.

And although all the papers are double sided, I made sure to not cheat – I did use seven different patterned papers here.

The colors of these papers makes me happy :)

And here’s my presentation over at the ColorConspiracy blog :)

Random scrapping thoughts: Before I joined ColorConspiracy…I was asked…but you’re mainly a shabby chic-kind of scrapper…? Hum. I really don’t consider myself a shabby chic kind of scrapbooker..when I hear shabby/shabby chic I picture a totally different style than mine to be honest…and still… I’ve gotten these kind of comments before too, about my style.

I dunno..maybe it’s the projects that I create in that style that’s the most memorable? Personally I like to think my style depends on the papers and embellishments I’m using, and the theme..the same goes for what I picture will fit the recipient if it’s a card or altered gift.. most scrappers I know find it difficult explaining or deciding what ones style is…me included.. nevertheless…I haven’t really had that much graphic papers in my stash before, so I’m really excited to see how I’ll do with these papers…whether it’ll really be different from what people picture is “me”, or if it won’t matter..I’ll still create what others picture as shabby…? :)

When we stayed in Oslo for Christmas, Amalie brought quite a few books over as well. Among them a book about Kasper and Lisa (Gaspard and Lisa), which she thought would be the perfect bedtime-story for her cousin named..Kasper! :)

I played around with mist, stencils, stamps and rub-ons on this layout, making them the main compartments here rather than patterned paper…I have to say I think it went quite well, no? It’s slightly messy but not that messy….? I used stamps from Craft Origine (a lot of them actually), stencils from Baltzer Designs and SODAlicious, rubons from Hambly and mist from Maya Road and Tattered Angels.

I also used both Rangers distress ink & pigment ink from Maya Road by the way…am trying to be better at not only using black & brown ink….oh, and the only patterned paper’s the one from Oh Baby! Boy from BAsic Grey. Oldie but goldie :)

So..hope you liked this layout.. I’m not into the art journal-ish stuff so I suppose this probably looks messy and weird for those who are in the know :p